This is following @patient’s topic. I didn’t want to hijak the thread so I created a new one.
I tend to overcomplicate things.
I mean wanting to know the exact diagnosis so I can feel comfortable within myself. But I have had many.
When I was told I had schizophrenia, something felt very “off”. I had read about other illnesses. I was noticing things about my moods. But upon questioning it and asking my pdoc, she would say it’s all part of the denial that goes with schizophrenia…
But when I finally got the diagnosis of schizoaffective and it was recognised I have a mood disorder too, I felt as though I was wrong to question it in the first place. I made up my symptoms to look like mood episodes. Afterall I am in denial I have schizophrenia so I am making all this up.
I don’t see the same pdoc. And now it is being proposed it may be bipolar. One opinion even said that. I still feel it’s schizophrenia and I am making it up to change dx.
